For The Diplomat, Freedom House’s Sarah Cook gives a rundown on the situation for Chinese media in 2015, a year which, she says, “may have marked the end of an era in Chinese journalism”:
The Guangdong-based Southern Media Group has been hit especially hard. Last January, former Southern Weekly journalist Fang Kecheng lamented the failure of 2013 protests by reporters and others who sought to combat censorship at the paper, one of the country’s